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Would You Like Drugs in Your Rice?
Digitus1337 writes "Wired has the scoop on a new type of rice that was just approved for production by a narrow vote. 'Ventria believes growing drugs that produce proteins like lactoferrin and lysozyme in rice could be a cheaper way to develop drugs than building and maintaining expensive manufacturing plants... Opponents say growing the crops in open fields endangers organic and conventional crops, as well as human health...'" Update: 03/30 23:15 GMT by T : That should probably read "growing rice that produces proteins like lactoferrin and lysozyme."
Before you know it we will have sarin producing dandelions and botulism producing crabgrass. Once the gate is open who know what comes thru.
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
Have you ever posted to Slashdot......on rice?
You had me at 'drugs'.
Does anyone else see this as just another thing thinkgeek can sell, caffienated?
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Really, must these liberal whiners continue to degrade the march of science based solely on their opinion? I eat genetically engineered food, and there's nothing wrong with me! And besides, the third hand really helps to type! Seriously, though, It really comes down to what is necessary for survival. Glo-Fish? Faddish, but really laying the groundwork for the next generation of bio-reactors. And franken food? There's already a huge industry out there for "Organic" food, why can't both co-exist? I'll take my golden rice steamed, and my Kobe Beef fresh from the secluded, beer fed haven it grew up in.
Physics is nothing like religion. If it was, we'd have an easier time trying to raise money!
No.
Scary...
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My workplace is anti rice. Three people have been fired recently for eating rice in their cubicle. *Takes another hit*
Van Leuwin: Thank you, Officer Ripley, that will be all.
Ripley: God damn it, that's not all! 'Cause if one of those things get down here then that will be all! And all this bullshit that you think is so important, you can kiss all that goodbye!
#!/usr/bin/english
Rice in my drugs.
I hate it when they cut it with rice.
-FL
Speaking as an extended member of the asian community, I propose the idea that rice IS a drug. It's damn addictive -- just ask most asians! Gotta have rice on a daily basis, if not at least twice a day. Otherwise you start getting the shakes. Potatoes don't cut it, bread certainly isn't it, and pasta just can't compare to the asian grain of choice.
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Low carb diet? Might as well call it detox!
Worse yet, its multi-cultural nature can lead to cultural degradation through Ricism. Asian rice tend to be smaller and stick together, texas long-grain tend to be big and separate, and brown rice is "out there" as far as culinary acceptance goes.
So rice with drugs is harmful. Rice IS already comparable to drugs without the additional drugs.
A French man and an Asian man were conversing:
Asian guy: "Did you get drugs for your rice?"
French guy: "Drugs for my rice?"
Asian guy <points to French guy's head>: "You know, drugs for your rice."
"What about genetically modifying sweetwater seaweed to contain THC?"
And when the kelp harvesters grab that algin, Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream will finally become the ultimate food and we'll evolve into a new race of walrus people.
G'goo goo g'joob, baby.
Breast-feeding right through to adulthood. I'll sign up.
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From the article:
"Even food-processing corporations are very upset about this as well, because they know all you need is one shipment of corn flakes that has a contraceptive in it and there's a real problem, obviously," [Paul] Achitoff said.
Yes, well obviously ... errr ... yes, a condom in a shipment of corn flakes would cause a problem... not sure what that has to do with genetically engineered rice, but, well, errr ... yes.
Someone give the man a cigar!
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
Yeast producing alcohol?
Let's apply genetic manipulation to produce carbohydrate-free rice please. This Atkins diet is killin' me!
You bet I want drugs in my rice! Though if it's not cocaine or marijuana, forget it.
Keep your eyes to the sky.
The problem of cross-pollination of GM and non-GM crops is obviously a concern, but in the case of the GM rice, it would be grown on islands which have no current production of rice.
Concerning the environmentalist concerns: environmentalists are much more concerned with genetic information travelling from the GM crop to plants/organisms which are not related to the GM crop. I stated that this is close to impossible. I did not state that cross-pollination is not possible. However, cross-pollination of non-drug-producing GM crops is hardly a concern in some countries because of strict control of land separation of GM crops and non-GM crops.
I am defenseless. Use your button. Mod me down with all of your hatred.
There are a lot of plants out there we could experiment with, but food crops are the most well researched and understood plants at this time. As a representative of Ventria, I feel compelled now to reveal our maniacal plans.
Even as I type this there is an alien invasion force enroute to earth. This is only one step in a complex plan being executed by advanced scouts to prepare the way for the invasion fleet. Our goal is to introduce seeming benign changes to the human food supply under the auspices of benefit for all humankind. Once these changes take hold, the plants will contaminate the rest of human agriculture, the genes will mutate from helpful substances into poisonous protien configurations rendering the majority of the human race's food supply worthless.
Once the mutations have embedded themselves in the agriculture seed/food supply, mass poisonings, then starvation will reign. The human population will be decimated and earth will be rendered defenseless in the face of the alien forces. Those of you who survive will become slaves to your new alien overlords. Monsanto and Ventria are only the beginning.
Sort of on topic: http://weev.flippersmack.com/pics/popcorn.jpg
... ASK YOUR DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST IF EASY-TO-INGEST MICROWAVABLE RISPERPOP IS RIGHT FOR YOU.
Think of the possibilities for the pharmaceutical industry this brings... There are already Actiq fentanyl lollipops for terminally ill children..
I can just imagine it now.
*an allegra-style commercial fades in, showing a schizophrenic running through a field of flowers in the springtime, drooling and talking to invisible people*
ARE THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD INTERFERING WITH YOUR LIFE? ARE THEY MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO LEAD A NORMAL LIFE OF SITTING ON YOUR ASS ALL DAY AND WATCHING DVDS? WELL FEAR NO MORE, RISPERPOP WILL SET YOU FREE.
*fade to shot of happy family eating bags of Risperpop(tm) while staring off at the TV in front of them*
How is this dangerous? The dinosaurs will never get loose, and even if they do they'll need the lysine-enriched rice to survive. Just in case we'll put up signs at the park that say "WARNING - Do Not Feed The Velociraptors", and the lawyers can't touch us.
What me worry?
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